{"id":30097,"date":"2025-12-04T12:04:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=30097"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:04:20","slug":"starc-surpasses-wasim-akram-as-most-prolific-left-arm-test-bowler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=30097","title":{"rendered":"Starc surpasses Wasim Akram as most prolific left-arm test bowler"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Australian veteran Mitchell Starc became the most prolific left-arm paceman in Test history on Thursday, surpassing Pakistan great Wasim Akram.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old bagged England&#8217;s Harry Brook at the Gabba in Brisbane on day one of the day-night second Ashes Test for his 415th wicket since his debut at the same ground 14 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>It moved him past Akram, widely recognised as the greatest left-arm bowler the sport has seen.<\/p>\n<p>Super Starc! Proud of you, mate. Your incredible hard work sets you apart, and it was only a matter of time before you crossed my tally of wickets . I am pleased to give this to you! Go well, and keep soaring to new heights in your stellar career . \ud83d\ude4f\ud83d\ude4f@mstarc56<br \/>\n\u2014 Wasim Akram (@wasimakramlive) December 4, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Akram played 104 Tests for his 414 wickets with Starc reaching the milestone in his 102nd, helped by a career-best 7-58 in the first innings of the opening Ashes Test at Perth.<\/p>\n<p>Starc is now 16th on the all-time wicket-taker list and could move above both India&#8217;s Harbhajan Singh (417) and South Africa&#8217;s Shaun Pollock (421) in the current pink-ball Test.<\/p>\n<p>After that he will have New Zealand&#8217;s Richard Hadlee (431) in his sights.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian veteran Mitchell Starc became the most prolific left-arm paceman in Test history on Thursday, surpassing Pakistan great Wasim Akram. The 35-year-old bagged England&#8217;s Harry Brook at the Gabba in Brisbane on day one of the day-night second Ashes Test for his 415th wicket since his debut at the same ground 14 years ago. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}